Reuse and composition are increasingly advocated and put into practice in modern software
engineering. However, the software entities that are to be reused to build an application, eg …

Abstract Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) is one of the most recent trends in IT solutions.
From a technical perspective SOA, can be considered a method for designing and …

Service-oriented computing aims to create complex systems by composing less-complex
systems, called services. Since services can be developed independently, the integration of …

Abstract In Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) services invoked in a composition can be
replaced by other services, which are possibly discovered and bound at runtime. Most of the …

Adaptation is of utmost importance in systems developed by assembling reusable software
services accessed through their public interfaces. This process aims at solving, as …

Service-Oriented Computing promotes the development of new systems from existing
services which are usually accessed through their public interfaces. In this context …

Current adaptation approaches mainly work in isolation and cannot be easily integrated to
tackle complex adaptation scenarios. The few existing cross-layer adaptation techniques are …

Service-oriented applications are typically built out of existing web-services (WSs) possibly
made available by third party vendors. This requires that the application has to be able to …

CONTEXT: Adaptation is a crucial issue when building new applications by reusing existing
software services which were not initially designed to interoperate with each other …

Security is considered to be one of the main challenges as regards the widespread
application of Service Oriented Architectures across organisations. WS-Security, and its …